Resources provided by Rachel Wadham, Brigham Young University

Rachel Wadham--webpage

Advocacy and Benchmarks

AASL: Position Statement on the Role of the School Library Program

AASL: School Libraries Count

Library Research Service: School Library Impact Studies

School Library Journal's Spending Survey

Collection Development Policies

About Collection Development Policies

Examples:

Hopkinton High School and Hopkinton Middle School

Iola-Scandinavia Middle/High School Library

Assessment and Weeding

ALA Library Fact Sheet 15: Weeding Library Collections

Crying Over Spilled Milk

Weeding As A Part of Collection Development

Companies for Collection Development

AcqWeb

Baker and Taylor

Follett Library Services

Ingram Book Company

Junior Library Guild

Selection Tools

EarlyWord

Review Sources:

Children's Book and Play Review

Horn Book

Kirkus

Publishers Weekly

School Library Journal

VOYA

Websites:

Kids Reads

Teen Reads

GoodReads

Teens Read Too

E-Books

Comparison of E-Book Formats

E-Book Devices

A Guide to EBook Purchasing

Overdrive

International Children's Digital Library

Children's Books Online

We Give Books

Children's and Young Adult Book Awards